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ACMA rejects industry consumer protection code

The regulator’s decision not to register the TCP Code aligns with the Government’s recent push towards direct oversight of the sector

Assessing the impact of fibre network consolidation in Sweden

The KKV has opened a special investigation to determine whether combining two of the country’s five national operators would harm competition

Event debrief: Capacity Europe 2025

With important reforms looming in Europe, the regulatory model in France was singled out as having successfully enabled fibre investment and competition

ComReg: Enforcing promotional pricing limits on Eircom

ComReg suspects Eircom’s promotional offer was targeted at Virgin Media customers and would not have been approved, even if properly notified

Belgium: Competition concerns of Proximus and Telenet’s joint fibre rollout

The operators’ proposed commitments to remedy concerns could reduce wholesale access prices by 30% and even lead to deregulation in the next market review

Brazil: USO for the 21st century

As the fair share debate rages on in Brazil, the question of how to fund more ambitious visions for comprehensive digital inclusion remains unsettled

Event debrief: Digital Networks Act: Rewriting the DNA of Europe’s Open Internet?

A broadly partisan crowd rejected both deregulating and expanding current regulation, while criticising “terrible” network traffic analogies

The policy response to the Optus network outage

Optus, ACMA and the Australian Government have all come under criticism for failing to prevent the 13-hour long emergency calling outage linked to four deaths

Accelerating copper retirement in Germany

With pressure for progress apparent at the EU level, the German Government is advocating BNetzA picks up the pace in setting a framework for the country’s transition to fibre

The FCC’s Delete, Delete, Delete purge

While the regulator has been focused on cosmetic changes to its rulebook so far, its aim for more meaningful deregulation will likely draw more process-based objections